BJ

Bryan Johnson

Founder of Don't Die

Los Angeles County, California

Overview 

Bryan Johnson is the Founder and CEO of Blueprint in Los Angeles County, California, with a background in founding successful ventures like Kernel and Braintree. He has made impactful investments in companies like Kernel and Eat Just, showcasing his expertise in venture capital and entrepreneurship.

Work Experience 

  • Founder

    2025 - Current

  • Founder

    2023

  • Founder/CEO

    2021

  • Founder

    2016

    Built the world’s first mass market brain interface capable of quantifying functional brain activity. Personally investing $64 million. Currently in clinical trials for mild cognitive impairment and depression

Kernel is a neuroscience company that specializes in developing brain-recording technologies.

Raised $158,246,256.00 from Tiny Blue Dot, Manta Ray Ventures, Bryan Johnson, General Catalyst, Eldridge Industries and Khosla Ventures.

  • Founder

    2013

    In 2014 I invested $100M to start OS Fund which invests in scientist entrepreneurs predictably engineering atoms, molecules, organisms and complex systems. OS Fund companies have created self fertilizing crops, are storing information in DNA to make biology your next hard drive, designing proteins that nature never got around to in over a few billion years of evolution, just to name a few world changing advances OS Fund companies now have in market.

Investing in entrepreneurs, inventors and scientists who aim to benefit humanity by rewriting the operating systems of life.

  • Founder/CEO

    2007 - 2013

    Bootstrapped Braintree and built the company into one of the fastest growing companies in the world, acquired Venmo, and sold the combined entity to Paypal for $800 million.

Braintree's payment platform provides all the tools online and mobile businesses need to accept payments.

Raised $69,000,000.00 from Accel, Greycroft, New Enterprise Associates and RRE Ventures.

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